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I'm a photographer. The first company that I ever used was Picaboo. The quality was above acceptable, but productions not meeting deadlines left something to be desired. After a few books, I found very quickly that I preferred the seamless lay flat option on all my books. The clean more professional feel to the thicker paper on the 12x12 book by far exceed any other options. So after a few lay flat books and some problems with orders again not meeting production deadlines and shipping, I tried Adoramapix. I've know of the for prints but not books. I received my first book which was a duplicate to a book already printed at Picaboo. The first was a gift. I was extremely happy with the quality. The book construction was just better. The surface of the cover had a more polished professional feel. The print quality looked the same as did the thickness of paper, but the photo paper's finish set them apart from one another. More importantly, I have not had to call to find out why an order is days past production time, creating shipping deadline issues.
I can't say enough about my experience with Adoramapix.

Beyond book construction and deadline differences, price wise the cost of the lay flat book is $40 less at Adoramapix. I've never paid full price for a Picaboo book but having to hunt down a half price coupon vs the regular price is more worth my while. Plus I can also use one of there coupons to make things even cheaper.

This company provides what I believe is the best books from all the options available. I have colleagues that use the others but I haven't been impressed as much as with Adorama.

I used this company for the first time about 3 years ago. Recently I decided to start printing my photos again in book format and used them again. I didn't have the same results as most of these reviews.
The quality of the book the first time around was exact to my screen. The second time around I decided to use the layflat paper. This options resulted in fantastic results. It was a book of sunsets for my mother. She was pleased as I also was over the color rendition. I printed a b/w photo book with images that range from contrasty or deep dark tones and yet the details within still held up. I had two issues with the book - I could slightly see the image of the back side of the page. If I went layflat, this wouldn't have been an issue. However with the layout of the book it would have been unnecessary for the extra expense and other book companies have to same paper weight for paperstock. My second issue was the book came in bent. I called the customer service. My response was very different then what is posted here. They told me to take a photo of the book and send it to them for their records. They had no problem replacing it. In fact, minutes later after sending the images I wanted to check the status of another book I had in production and notice that the bent on was already reordered by them. They overnighted the book once it was printed.
The last book I made in color came in last week. The print quality was good. Things were the same as usual. Nothing out of the ordinary. Colors were very close to accurate. A slight drop in vividness but essentially the same as the computer.
After reading some of these reviews I can't help but wonder if some take into account that user errors isn't a fault of a company. I'm not trying to bash anyone because these are things I have and could easily do too. But having spend money I make sure to double check things.
Like for example the yellow crop lines that say that they image 'may' be cropped is a rough estimate. So yes, the image past that point may show up. If you stop the image right at the line, you run the risk of the white of the paper showing up. Or leaving blank pages. I've done it but caught in when I looked through what I was getting printed. After all that effort why not take 5 more minutes? Again these are mistakes I've caught myself making too. These were my thoughts with some of what I was reading.
Anyways, overall I'm happy with what I'm receiving. I have 4 more books to print so hopefully all stays this way. I've never tried another company as I've had no need to this point.